Building movies with the Video Story tool

- [Instructor] In the upper right hand cornerof the interface, under the Create button,are a couple of tools for automaticallyor semi-automatically making movies from your video clips.We're going to talk about video collagea little bit later in the course.With Instant Movie, you simplyhand the program a batch of clips, select a theme,and it will make a movie for you.But with the new Video Story tool,you have a bit more control in the process.You provide the raw footage, and the Video Story toolwill walk you through the process of turning that footageinto a structured story.So let's select Video Story.

Now, the first time you use Video Story,you get a little banner that kind of advertises Video Story.You have the option to skip or exit it.Click on that, you won't see that banner againwhen you use the program.You'll go directly to what I'm seeing right now,a category selection.So let's select a general category,and you see you have a number of templates and options,whether you're creating a video for a wedding,or a love story, or birthday parties, whatever.Let's select Travel Diaries and click on Get Started.

Now, you notice it has a blue bannerin the upper right hand corner.Any time you see a template or an effectthat has a blue banner, it's telling you that thefile has not yet, or the templatehas not yet been downloaded onto your computer.It's available out there at Adobe.com.All you need to do is select it,and the first time you select it,it will download and install,and you're have it forever more.And there it is downloading.Now, once our template is downloaded,we gather the media for our movie.I'm going to select Files and Folders,go out here to my assets, and just grab a bunch of them.

I'm just going to hold down the Shift key,grab the first one, grab a bunch more.I could hold down the control or the command key on a Mac,grab a few more.You just want to gather all of themthat you plan to use in your movie,and then click on Open.And now we have our story assets.Click next, and now we're going to turn those assetsinto a story, and as you can see,the templates help you do that becausethey actually give you little categoriesto gather your media in.So, we've got the title right here, the very first one,and then each of the chapters here,Meeting the Travelers, The Journey, Places We Visit.

These are all editable, by the way,so it's not only applicable to traveling,but we can make it applicable tovirtually any story we want to tell.The title templates, like this little chapter here,will only hold one video,so I'm just going to drag this video,and this is going to serve as the background for our title.The other chapters, we can grab several videos,and even still photos, and drag them in too,as many as you'd like in each chapter.So, we're trying to tell the story here,and we would build that out.

If there's a chapter we don't want,we can just click on the little trash can here to delete it.And once we've gathered the assetsfor each of our chapters, we click on the Next button.And now we're going to take the individual chaptersand we're going to make sense of them.As I said, the title chapterswill only hold one video clip.We're calling this A Trip to Remember.I'm going to call it something else.And that is going to update on the template itself,so that my custom title will appear when I preview it.

And, in fact, if I want to preview at any point,I just click the little preview buttondown here at the bottom of the panel.And here's a preview of my title.As you can see, it customizedaccording to what I typed in,and it's even going to provide us some music.(rock music)Now, as I said, the story title chapterswill only hold one video clip.On the other hand, when you go into the individual chapters,you have the option of adding several video clips.

Once again, we can changethe title that appears at the beginning.So we can call this one.And that's going to update.Each of these individual video clips,we can kind of customize too.If we click on the little starwhen we hover our mouse over it,this will open up the Smart Trim area,where we can select which part of the clipwe'd like included, just by trimming an area.I want to use this segment only.And when I click Done, I go back into my movie.And I can do that with each of the individual clips.

I can change their order, of course, by dragging them.I can change the mood.There, in fact, is a lot of customization I can doto the individual chapters.If I click on the cog here, I can add my own custom music,I can add filters to the video, et cetera.Click apply, and I would do thatfor each of the chapters in my movie,customizing it, changing the titles as necessary,and then arranging the order of the clips in each chapterto tell my story.

When I'm done, I can preview my video,I can export it to my timeline,or I can go up here to Export and Share at the top right,click on that, and here I have the optionof sharing the video to a device,or even sending it directly toFacebook, YouTube, or Vimeo.So, as I said, the Video Story toolsort of walks you through the processof turning that raw footage into a movie.Like Instant Movie, it adds its own magicautomatically to the process,but with Video Story, you're actually building a storyfrom your movie clips,a story that has some structure,and a logical beginning, middle, and end.

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10/4/2017

Premiere Elements is an affordable and full-featured video-editing program. It's a complete moviemaker's toolkit—easy to use but powerful enough for professionals. Get up and running with the latest version, Premiere Elements 2018, in this course with Steve Grisetti. Learn everything you need to know to turn raw video clips into professional movies, complete with color correction, effects, pitch-perfect audio, titles, and animation. Discover how to choose the right tools for the job, work in Quick view and Expert view, record voiceover, build motion paths, and add transitions between clips. Steve also shows you how to use the Instant Movie and Video Story tools for quick, easy moviemaking, as well as the Video Collage tool for one-click split-screen effects. Last but not least, dive into the Export & Share workspace for authoring DVDs and exporting video to share on your TV, smartphone, or online channels such Facebook and YouTube.